- Date
- August 26, 1968
- Place
- Los Alamos, NM · LOS ALAMOS, NM
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N2394ZBeech 23
- Status
- Completed · report October 17, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 108881
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2796 68/8/26 LOS ALAMOS,N MEX BEECH 23 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 29, 210 TIME - 0535 N2394Z PX- 0 0 2 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, ALL IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - LOS ALAMOS TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION GEAR COLLAPSED TAKEOFF: ABORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - SPONTANEOUS-IMPROPER ACTION FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - OVERLOAD FAILURE POWERPLANT - POWERPLANT-INSTRUMENTS: POWER INDICATORS MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - MATERIAL FAILURE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - PRECAUTIONARY LANDING OFF AIRPORT SUSPECTED MECHANICAL DISCREPANCY REMARKS- PLT CRASH LANDED WHEN TACHOMETER READ 3200 RPM. ENG DID NOT OVERSPEED,PROP WAS FIXED PITCH.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2394Z
- Reported as
- Beech 23
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Los Alamos
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